Catalysis Science & Technology – five years in 2015

In 2015 Catalysis Science & Technology enters its fifth year of publication. The journal continues to go from strength to strength with the last year seeing increases in terms of growth and impact. Demonstrating Catalysis Science & Technology's establishment as a high impact journal for top quality catalysis research was the release of our second ever Impact Factor of 4.76, a huge 27% increase. Alongside this the journal has seen continuing growth in both submissions and publications. In 2014 we saw over a 50% growth in submissions compared to 2013 and we will publish over 460 articles.

All of this demonstrates that, in its fifth year, Catalysis Science & Technology is fulfilling the aim outlined at its launch to be a Society Journal serving the catalysis community. Increasing submissions are the best indicator to us that we are serving the community; it demonstrates your trust in us. Most importantly, however, all of this would not be possible without the support of the community. We would like to thank all of our authors, referees, readers and of course, our dynamic and committed Editorial Board. The support of the community makes all of the journal's successes possible and as a Society we reinvest all surplus back into the chemical sciences community.

The most important aspect to us of serving the community is focusing on quality. This manifests itself in our attention to excellent customer service but also to the quality of the research we publish. Integral to these is the dedication of our Associate Editors who handle your papers through peer review. We have seen a change in our Editorial Offices over the last year with Professor Paul Chirik retiring from his position, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank him for all his support of the journal, which has been consistent from the start and had a huge impact on the journal's success. We were delighted to appoint our first Associate Editor based in China, Professor Ding Ma from Peking University who’s Editorial Office opened in June. Professor Ma joins Professors Paul Kamer, Javier Pérez-Ramírez and Tsunehiro Tanaka (see Table 1 for details of the Editorial Offices) and in 2015 we will be giving you even more choice in Editorial Office with the appointment of further Associate Editors.

Table 1 Catalysis Science & Technology's Associate Editors and their Editorial Offices

Ding Ma	Paul Kamer	Javier Pérez-Ramírez	Tsunehiro Tanaka
Peking University, China	University of St. Andrews, UK	ETH Zürich, Switzerland	Kyoto University, Japan

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Our Associate Editors are delivering not only quality but also breadth, Fig. 1 demonstrates that Catalysis Science & Technology publishes a wide range of topics from across the whole catalysis community. Our top downloaded Perspectives and Minireviews (Table 2) give a taster of our most popular content. The breadth of our coverage is also demonstrated in our Themed Issues which, over the last year, have focused on the conversion of carbon dioxide, conversions of renewable substrates and mechanistic catalysis. We also had a Themed Issue on the catalytic community in the USA publishing an online collection from authors in this community. Table 3 shows the Themed Issues and Web Collections published over the course of 2014 and the Guest Editors who made them possible. We are very excited to have a great programme of themed issues in 2015, kicking off with catalysis on chiral surfaces, Guest Edited by Professor Alfons Baiker from ETH Zürich.

Fig. 1 Subject area breakdown of Catalysis Science & Technology's 2014 published articles.

Table 2 2014 Top downloaded Catalysis Science & Technology Perspectives and Minireviews

Title	Authors	Link
Recent progress in catalytic conversions of carbon dioxide	Chihiro Maeda, Yuki Miyazaki and Tadashi Ema	http://rsc.li/1sHdlZM
Homogeneous catalysis for the conversion of biomass and biomass-derived platform chemicals	Peter J. Deuss, Katalin Barta and Johannes G. de Vries	http://rsc.li/1tKYNI4
Selective hydrogenation of phenol and related derivatives	Jiawei Zhong, Jinzhu Chen and Limin Chen	http://rsc.li/1BeT5rL
Homogeneous hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol	Yu-Nong Li, Ran Ma, Liang-Nian He and Zhen-Feng Diao	http://rsc.li/1qF6qjd
A review on selective catalytic reduction of NOx by supported catalysts at 100–300 °C – catalysts, mechanism, kinetics	Mengfan Fu, Caiting Li, Pei Lu, Long Qu, Mengying Zhang, Yang Zhou, Minge Yu and Yang Fang	http://rsc.li/1oPFpOq

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Table 3 2014 Themed Issues and Web Collections

Title	Guest editor(s)	Link
Mechanistic studies in catalysis	John Brown (University of Oxford), Andreas Pfaltz (University of Basel), and Rutger van Santen (Eindhoven University of Technology).	http://rsc.li/1uC7Ejd
Sustainable catalytic conversions of renewable substrates	Pieter C. A. Bruijnincx (Utrecht University) and Yuriy Román-Leshkov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	http://rsc.li/1uNcyvj
Carbon dioxide conversion	Arjan W. Kleij (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ))	http://rsc.li/1xRQXl2
Catalysis in the USA web collection	Robert Rioux (Pennsylvania State University, USA) and Dean Toste (University of California, Berkeley, USA)	http://rsc.li/1uW74hB

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There have been a few new faces on the Editorial Office team this year, including myself. Many of you will know that the Founding Editor Jamie Humphrey was promoted earlier this year to Publisher and Deputy Editor Fiona McKenzie was promoted to be Editor of our Materials portfolio of journals. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them both for their dedication and contribution to Catalysis Science & Technology and congratulate them on the success of the journal and their promotions.

I am absolutely delighted to have been appointed as the Editor of Catalysis Science & Technology and look forward to working with the community to continue the success of the journal. I have a new Deputy Editor, Ruth Norris and we will both be attending a number of conferences next year and we look forward to meeting you to discuss the catalysis landscape and how Catalysis Science & Technology can serve you. Do look out for details of where we will be on the Blog. We won't just be attending conferences, we are proud to provide sponsorship and contribute poster prizes to conferences to support emerging investigators and students – if you are organising an event please get in touch to see if we can help with prizes and promotion.

I would like to close by thanking my colleagues; there is a whole team of Editorial Staff working hard behind the scenes to deliver a top quality journal in hand with excellent customer service to authors, referees and readers alike. The whole team is pictured in Fig. 2. We are always eager to hear your feedback, please contact us by emailing catalysis-rsc@rsc.org. On behalf of the whole Catalysis Science & Technology team we wish you all the best for the year ahead.

Fig. 2 Picture of the team at the Cambridge Editorial Office.

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